Capitol Hill Club

There's five hours worth of information there about this character, but the m- the thing that really reached out and just captivated me, and, and it, and it probably would only captivate me and make my alarm bells go off, make my radar ping in the red, was because of my intimate knowledge about all things related to the pipe bomb story.

And what he told me was, is that when the FBI interviewed him two times in a single day at his home in his city, they interviewed him twice that day and One of the things that the FBI agents that were interviewing him told him was that they saw him throw an empty water bottle away in the exact trash can behind the Republican National Committee and the Capitol Hill Club where the bomb had been placed on the evening of January 5th.

And that he had gone to that specific trash can and threw that empty water bottle away right next to where the bomb was planted just less than two hours later, after he departed and went back to Falls Church from DC.

And by the way, he was in DC kind of touring around and also visiting some of the scheduled protest events that were happening in the city that day.

Metro area, uh, train system and subway system.

Yep.

When he got off of the s-- and came out of what they call the Metro Center Station, which is right acro- right across the street from the Republican National Committee headquarters and the Capitol Hill Club-

I know right where it is

The first thing, as I show in a photograph in this story, is I show a series of photos of person of interest number two.

All right, the first one there on the left, you can see that he exits the Metro South Station, which is right across the street from the RNC and the Capitol Hill Club.

And he's wearing a red hat, a COVID mask.

It is, you know, COVID era extraordinaire in D.C. at this time.

So to be to be specific, what happened after he changed hats and put on the glasses, he beelined it straight across the street from the RNC.

I'm sorry, from the Metro South Station.

And there's a walkway, kind of almost like a tunnel, between the RNC and the Capitol Hill Club that takes you into the Rumsey Court alley.

And so he goes down through that tunnel and then appears on the inside of Rumsey Court, and he begins taking photographs of numbers.

Then it was all, you know, it was all on.

But what had happened only 15 minutes before the barricade breach is there was a discovery of a suspicious device behind the Capitol Hill Club, which is right next to the Republican National Committee headquarters.

And this is only, as the crow flies, less than a quarter of a mile away.

All right, it's very, very close to the Capitol.

Then it was all, you know, it was all on.

But what had happened only 15 minutes before the barricade breach is there was a discovery of a suspicious device behind the Capitol Hill Club, which is right next to the Republican National Committee headquarters.

And this is only, as the crow flies, less than a quarter of a mile away.

All right, it's very, very close to the Capitol.

And I got into an elevator with him.

I mean, I'm, what, 18, 19? I get in an elevator with him at the Capitol Hill Club, you know, the famous conservative group.

And he's got two aides next to him.

And I still can see that image in my mind of how just paper-thin white.

They don't do a damn thing.

They hold these meetings at the Capitol Hill Club, and if you actually come in and try to do something, instead of being like, "Hey, thank you," they kick you out.

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That's why I'm befuddled.